On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 11:57 AM, David Cake<[email protected]> wrote:
> Personally, I am a big believer in Hanlons Razor, the idea > that you should never attribute to malice what can adequately be > explained by stupidity. Believe in the power of stupidity, it is a > might and indefeatable facet of human nature. without wishing to defend the conspiracy theorists in this particular case, I don't like this razor much at all. It essentially demands that stupidity be ruled out before malice can even be considered. Consideration of the razor provides an unbeatable trump card to all those wishing to cover anything up for any reason and gives lets say "borderline objectivists" a little push towards "compliance". We can all agree that the vast majority of conspiracy theories are hokum, but if we just "adhere" (like good acolytes) to Hanlon's Razor, we'll never give *any* alternative theory a chance. _______________________________________________ OSX-Nutters mailing list | [email protected] http://lists.tit-wank.com/mailman/listinfo/osx-nutters List hosted at http://cat5.org/
